Friction-clutch



(No Model.)

E. D. 'SOHMITT.

FRICTION CLUTCH. No. 465,213. Patented Dec. 15, 1891.

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EDWARD D. SCI-IMITT, OF OUYAHOGA FALLS, 01-110, ASSIGNOR TO THE FALLS RIVET AND MACHINE ooM NnoF 01-110.

-FRlCT|ON-CLUTCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent No. 465,213, dated December 15, 1891.

Application filed October 20, 1891- Serial No.409,288. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

I of Ouyahoga Falls, in the State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Friction-Clutches, of which the following is a specification.

Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings is a longitudinal section of a clutch-pulley containing my invention. Fig. 2 is an end View of the same with the shifting sleeve omitted. Figs. 3 and 4 are details.

a is the shaft; b, the pulley-hub; c, the bushing of the pulley-hub; d, a circular flange extending radially outward from one end of the pulley-hub; e, the ordinary shifting sleeve, provided with the ordinary groove f for the ordinary shifting-lever, and o a set collar to hold the pulley in place.

The object of the parts about to be described is by motions received from the shifting sleeve 6 to frictionally clutch the circular flange d of the pulley.

g is a ring fixed upon the shaft suitable means.

it is a circular flange radiating from the end of the ring g adjacent to the pulley.

'i is a circumferential flange extending to- Ward the pulley from the periphery of the flange h.

a by any The ring g and the flanges h and 'i are all I cast in one piece.

j is a circular disk which fits loosely around the hub b, and which is provided at its periphery with a flange 10 corresponding with the flange e'. The disk j is cored out at j, Fig. 3,

and is split diametrically on the line j so that it may be placed around the hub in two parts, but is secured together and to the flange i when the bolts are applied to the lugs or ears. The flanges 11 and k are provided with ears Z Z, by which they may be bolted firmly together.

m is a disk which fits around the shaft (1 inside of the flange 'i, and which is free to move longitudinally on the shaft a, but is firmly held from rotating thereon and on the flange h by any suitable means, such as pins 19, projecting, as shown in Fig. 4:, loosely through holes in the flange h and tapped into opposite arms of both levers impinge upon the inclined surface of the shifting sleeve 6.

The disks m and j are each faced with wood s on the surface adjacent to the flange d.

The operation of the clutch is as follows: In the drawings it is shown in the unclutched position. As the shifting sleeve e is shifted toward the pulley the arms of levers q and r, in contact with the sleeve, will slide up the inclined sleeveuntil they are locked by entering the groove f. This throws the noses of the set-screws r forward so as to throw the wood facing of the disk m into contact with the flange cl. This forces-the pulley bodily toward the set-collar 0 (which is slightly off from the end of bushing 0) until the wood facing of the disk 3' is brought into contact with the flange d on the opposite side.

1. In combination with a pulley and the hub thereof, a flange d, radiating from the hub, the

friction-disks m and j on opposite sides thereof, a sleeve g, rotating with the shaft, means whereby the disk j is fixed to the sleeve 9, and levers mounted on opposite sides of the sleeve g,whereby the friction-surfaces on disks m and j are caused to grip the flange d on 0pposite sides, substantially as described.

2. A gripping device consisting of the disks 'm and j, the lovers q r, the sleeve g, upon which the lovers are mounted, and the flanges '6 k, by which the sleeve g is connected with the periphery of the disk j outside the disk m, substantially as described.

3. A clutch device consisting of 'the disks m and j, the sleeve g, the lovers mounted thereon, the flange h, and the divided flange t' k, connecting with the peripheries of the flanges h and j and provided with means the flange h, and levers journaled upon the whereby its two parts may be detaohably seflange h, whereby the disk m is thrust toward [0 cured together, substantially as described. the flange d, substantially as-desoribed.

4:- In combination with a pulley and the hub 5 thereof, a flange d, radiating from the hub, EDWARD D. SCI-IMITT.

friction-disks m and j on opposite sides there- \Vitnesses: of, a flange h, rigidly secured to the disk j, a FRED S. KEMPER, spring whereby the disk m is drawn toward J. E. GREER. 

